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Newcastle Hospitals awards

The Newcastle Hospitals and our staff are regularly named as winners in regional, national and international awards. We have been given awards for our work in a range of areas such as healthcare, innovation, research, training, science and HR.

This page gives you more information about some of the awards given to individuals and teams across Newcastle Hospitals.

In November the Newcastle Hospitals scooped three national HSJ Awards - more than any other Trust in the country! This is a fantastic achievement and very much represents the continuous commitment and dedication demonstrated by our staff every single day.

Our 2015 awards CIPD Award winners for second year running

Newcastle Hospitals has once again won a CIPD Award, winning the ‘2015 People Development Award’ for its involvement in ‘Project Choice’. The project creates a pathway to employment for young adults aged 16-24 with learning/physical disabilities or autism. The project is tailored to individual needs and we use many learning aids to support the young people's different learning styles.

Nationally, less than 7% of people with a disability are in paid employment, and this project is a step towards improving this. Seventy six percent of the Project Choice participants have gained paid employment or apprenticeships.

David Hopper – a specialist physiotherapist - became an official Haemophilia Society 'Buddy' in 2014. The Haemophilia Society’s award recognises the support given by friends, family and healthcare professionals to children with bleeding disorders.

A group of Cardiologists, Vascular Surgeons and Interventional Radiologists from the Freeman Hospital were named the UK’s best Education and Training team at this year’s BMJ Healthcare Awards ceremony.

Neil Wrightson, Ventricular Assisted Devices or VAD Co-ordinator was recognised as the best in the world at what he does, winning the 2014 International VAD Co-ordinator of the Year Award.

Awards focus

'Student Nurse of the Year: Post-registration'

Nicola McCann - staff nurse on the Regional Neuro-Trauma Critical Care Unit at the RVI - was named as the Student Nursing Times 'Student Nurse of the Year: Post-registration' in 2014.

Occupational Therapy Innovation Award

Kate Hackett was awarded a national College of Occupational Therapists Innovation Award in recognition of her new project "Identifying and meeting the needs of service users within a specialist fatigue clinic".

Newcastle topped the national league table for NHS research activity. The number of patients recruited into clinical trials last year totalled over 15,800 - far better than any other similar Trusts nationwide.

Our Specialist Continence Team scooped the 2014 British Journal of Nursing - Continence Nurse of the Year Award. The team developed a project to prevent people in care and residential homes having to come to hospital to be treated for urinary tract infections (UTIs).

Personal Touch Awards

Newcastle Hospitals also has its own awards initiative for its own staff. Patients, members of the public, and colleagues can nominate staff for a Personal Touch Award.